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Haha HRRR is almost no snow here…mix to rain.

Just compare the standard deviations for the cold in Alaska, versus the heat in the southwest Whichever is of greater magnitude wins the debate

Nice bike! Got out for a great long ride up in farm country with the crew today. Perfect weather.

Definitely calling in sick Monday and staying up north. No way I’m driving back from N Conway in a snow storm.

Shhh, those who know, don’t say.

“Only” 107° for Yuma today. 6 100°+ readings for March there on record coming into this year (max 102°) and their last 4 days have been 103-106-109-107.

3rd straight 105° at PHX today. They had one (1) 100° reading ever in March going back to 1895 and they’ve pulled 102-105-105-105 the last 4 days.

Todays: EWR: 60 / 48 (+10) NYC: 59 / 49 (+10)

Everyone is blowing away their records equally as impressive though. I don’t think the UHI has much to do with this…especially on daytime highs.

Brutal year for bridger. But they need to shut it down. Some recent bad winters there have me wondering if that place may ever go bankrupt.

You forget about HAARP!!!

W/ the strong UHI bias that occur here even during that day, it is very likely that PHX would not have hit 105 F for the past 3 days (105 F is the max the last 3 days). You can't leave this out of the discussion and act like this is not a factor. Otherwise, it is a lie of omission. PHX is located in the heart of the downtown, not typical for a major airport, but that's how it is. As a result, a warm bias exists strongly. Ever look how PHX has grown since 1870? It is among the fastest-growing cites out there, and still is. Look at population growth alone in the mid-20th century, and at the same time a significant spike in avg temps occurred that does not exist nearly to this extent outside the city. A similar issue exists in LAS. So you really can't compare many records of today as objectively hotter/hottest when a concrete jungle leads to a consistent warm bias. And this systematic bias exists in various degrees at many climate stations around the world b/c they are located in populated areas that experience growth over time.

START THE BUS BACK UP BABY. MARCH SNOW ON SNOW IS INBOUND!!!

Seeing that, I was handing out bro flowers to dudes I never met yesterday may constitute a reevaluation of my lonely years statement. I'm also realizing I just wasted a lot of time and space just to say you're d***** if you do, and you're d***** if you don't.

That absurd heat in the plains and southwest combined with the well below normal temperatures in Canada is making for some crazy contrasts across the sub. It’s like March weather on steroids. It’s been a struggle to get any of the real warmth up here outside of brief intervals. Today was another one of those days where it stayed in the 30s all day. It might rise some more tonight but by morning we’ll be back to strong north winds and falling temps again.

I really hope you can find some type of balance, and peace through it.. Not saying any of this should or or will be your fate, because you're already married . I often ponder, which one is worse. You could sit around over indulging in sadness with the wheels constantly turning, knowing that your most likely never going know what it's like to be married and going to die alone., and the only woman that truly ever loved you was your mother. Then, I ponder, what if you did get married and god forbid it ended up being your son's insane mother. I haven't got into the lonely years in life yet, but I have a feeling they're really going to suck. Hopefully this helps provide another perspective without making things any worse. As far as the the weather getting you down ,i'm fairly confident my advice would not be met with high regard.

Obviously! Lol

I'm taking about the MSM in general, not this group. Not saying the heat in the Desert SW is not impressive and record-breaking, but one needs to hear the entire story and know history for proper perspective to make good assessments and reasonable opinions. A major problem is that narratives and stories are all too often one-sided.

I don't see how that is relevant. Picking one type of record w/o looking at the big picture does not tell the entire story. But if you want to use that notion, has Phoenix or any other climate location in the Lower 48 have had such persistent, long-term cold all winter that has set records for duration/frequency? Or how did 40 of 50 states set their all-time March record 50+ years ago and most 95+ years ago? And that is more telling and representative b/c it was not a single heat event and it was spread out over much of the country. Also, March 1879 had a similar high heat in the Desert SW. PHX hit 100 F on March 3, 1879, 15 days earlier that the official first 100 set on March 18 this month, and that same month, PHX hit 112 F on March 30, 4 F higher than any temp in this current heat wave, and this was before any UHI, which PHX is among the worst placed sites for UHI bias for a U.S. climate site (Baltimore/Inner Harbor is likely the worst). The start of official continuous PHX records is 1895, but that does not man you ignore what occurred before any climate station period of record (this data can be found at NCEI). That would be like ignoring the major 1635 and 1815 hurricanes that hit SNE b/c BOS official climate record starts in 1872. Or the Great Snow of 1717.

Those 1911 readings look legit…brutal cold on the original COOP forms for multiple sites. -68 at Allakaket is nuts for March. Alaskan yore.

Nah spring is awesome. Eternal early spring would be ideal. It could be 80f and thunderstorms or it can be 34f and heavy snow, ya never know

86 at MLI and DVN smashing the record. I can now officially say I threw a snowball on a day it hit the mid 80s.

It’s been impressive. Not sure about the validity of the 1911 stretch, but if you toss that then Fairbanks tied the next coldest reading of -49. 4 record mins this month and lots of runner ups.

Got the April map? I mentioned AK the other day.